Following a jury’s award of $110,000 to a woman it said suffered retaliation in response to her employment discrimination suit, a federal judge last month ordered the defendant company to pay almost $250,000 in attorney fees and expenses.

Despite “temporary episodes of dementia,” former DeKalb Superior Court Clerk Linda Carter says in an affidavit that she is competent to complete her term in office, and that staff could handle her duties when she is confused.

A FULTON COUNTY judge last week halted scheduled promotions of Atlanta firefighters to the rank of lieutenant, ruling that the 41 positions may be filled only on a temporary basis while a class action asserting possible cheating on an April test moves forward.

A federal jury has awarded a former project director for the University of Georgia almost $1.3 million for her claims that her former boss falsely accused her of stealing state-owned equipment, resulting in her arrest, destroying her career and sending her into a suicidal depression.

THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S ruling Thursday striking down integration plans in Kentucky and Washington state could spell the end to how some Georgia school districts administer magnet schools and other special programs, a local lawyer who represents school districts said Thursday.

Ruling in its second major race relations matter of the week, a split U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday breathed new life into a Georgia Senate map that a lower court had struck down as violating the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Ames Edward “Eddie” Eppinger, a bodybuilder addicted to prescription painkillers and an illegal steroid, was sentenced to 14 days in jail for traffic violations on August 21, 2000. Within five days he was dead, accidentally strangled by a deputy trying to move him into an isolation cell.

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